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RUNT | Return Season

fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, Australia

RUNT to return to our theatre after a sold-out premiere season

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Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance

fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, Australia

Gary Abrahams directs Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prizewinning drama of 1966 featuring a stellar cast.

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The Curtain by Daniel Keene

fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, Australia

Daniel Keene returns to fortyfivedownstairs with The Curtain, written with his sharp ear for poetry and play.

Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, Australia

Green Room Award winners Jillian Murray and Laurence Strangio re-join forces to present Joan Didion’s remarkable memoir

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The Ghetto Cabaret

fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, Australia

A powerful new cabaret featuring Yiddish songs written in the Jewish ghettos of WWII.

Max Gillies

Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett

After a critically acclaimed season in 2018, Max Gillies returns to fortyfivedownstairs in Beckett's remarkable duet for solo performer and tape recorder.

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SHIT by Patricia Cornelius

SHIT, winner of four Green Room Awards, returns to fortyfivedownstairs after a sold-out season in 2016.

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LOVE by Patricia Cornelius

An unapologetic exploration of love and addiction. Audacious. Raw. In-your-face, LOVE is a work that talks about an Australia that is rarely explored on our stages.

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Bottomless by Dan Lee

fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, Australia

Broome is a tropical paradise, but also home to the idiosyncratic Sober Up Centre. Written in response to his own experience of getting sober, Dan Lee's story moves between a chaotic night the Centre and a long past tragic incident.

Jillian Murray

DE STROYED

fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, Australia

A thought provoking new Australian work by Jillian Murray and Suzanne Chaundy with words by Simone de Beauvoir.

This is Eden by Emily Goddard

fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, Australia

A limited return season of an extraordinary work that examines our dark past. Part of the 2018 VCE Drama Playlist.

Birdcage Thursdays by Sandra Fiona Long

fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, Australia

A dark and humorous new Australian theatre work about isolation and excess in modern life.

L’amante anglaise by Marguerite Duras

fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, Australia

After three sellout seasons, Marguerite Duras' chilling story of a brutal murder in small town France returns to the stage.

TAXITHI

fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, Australia

The untold stories of women who migrated from Greece to Australia in the 1950s and 60s.

Dreamers

fortyfivedownstairs theatre 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, Australia

fortyfivedownstairs presents Dreamers 7 - 30 November 2014 ★★★★ 1/2 '...a romance of simplicity and much tenderness' Australian Book Review SHOW DETAILS: 7 - 30 November 2014 preview: Thursday 6 November opening night: Friday 7 November times: Tuesday to Saturday 8pm Sunday 4pm ticket price: $35 - $45 We're proud to announce the Australian premiere…

Savages by Patricia Cornelius

fortyfivedownstairs presents Savages by Patricia Cornelius 16 August - 18 September 2013 ★★★★1/2 '….stunning, stylised work by one of our most original writers...' ArtsHub SHOW DETAILS: 16 August - 18 September 2013 opening night: Friday 16 August duration: 75 minutes times: Tuesday to Saturday 7:*30pm Sunday 5pm ticket price: $35 - $45 bookings: 03 9662 9966…

fortyfivedownstairs in association with Melbourne Festival present

Michael James Manaia

fortyfivedownstairs in association with Melbourne Festival presents Michael James Manaia 12 - 28 October 2012 What do you do when the country you grew up in – the country you fought for – has no place for you? SHOW DETAILS: 12 - 28 October 2012 duration: 130 minutes times: Tuesday to Friday 7.30pm Saturday 4pm…

Whiteley’s Incredible Blue

fortyfivedownstairs in association with Melbourne Festival presents Whiteley’s Incredible Blue… an hallucination  13 - 23 October 2011 What lies inside the imaginations of an artist and addict? SHOW DETAILS: 13 - 23 October 2011 times: Tuesday to Sunday 8pm Friday & Saturday 10pm ticket price: $37.50 - $45 bookings: 03 9662 9966 In the intimate surrounds…

Cafe Scheherazade

fortyfivedownstairs presents Cafe Scheherazade 8 March - 3 April 2011 20 August - 11 September 2011 Cafe Scheherazade returns to fortyfivedownstairs after a sold-out season SHOW DETAILS: 8 March - 3 April 2011 20 August - 11 September 2011 times: Tuesday to Saturday 8pm Sunday 5pm Café Scheherazade, a new Australian play by Thérèse Radic and…

Do not go gentle…

fortyfivedownstairs presents Do not go gentle... by Patricia Cornelius directed by Julian Meyrick 5 - 29 August 2010 How is it possible to enter old age with grace when there’s so much to be done, things to achieve, places to go, loves to be loved and sex to be had? SHOW DETAILS: 5 - 29…

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